Charles Rangel Won't Accept Fox Facts in Front of Him, Makes Kerry-lik

Justin McCarthy
 

Failure to Launch: Media Hype Epidemic of 20-Somethings Living with th

Another exasperating storyline from the MSM: the economy may be just fine overall but its screwing over 20-somethings who have to live with mom and dad.My colleague Dan Gainor wrote up a review of the media's reheating the tired old storyline: In the November 26 “World News Sunday” story “Young & in Debt,” anchor Dan Harris talked up the story about twentysomethings “forced…
Ken Shepherd
 

Stories Lament Twentysomethings 'Forced' to Live with Parents

Media depict young adults struggling with debt but talk little about poor choices that got them there.
Dan Gainor
 

AP Makes It Even Worse

Dan Riehl
 

CBS's Lara Logan Declares US Defeated In Iraq; General Abizaid Dispute

Michael Rule
 

In Clunky Newscasts, NBC News Decrees Iraq In 'Civil War' [Transcript

Geoffrey Dickens
 

Florida Paper Exposes Dangers of Hurricane Forecasting

The Tampa Tribune published an article Monday about how wrong the hurricane predictions were this year, and addressed some of the costs to Florida residents (emphasis mine, hat tip to NB member Full Monte): With cataclysmic predictions that hurricanes would swarm from the tropics like termites, no one thought 2006 would be the most tranquil season in a decade.Barring a last-second surprise from…
Noel Sheppard
 

It's Official: Media Body Burning Story is Bogus

The news that six Sunnis were captured by Shiites, doused with kerosine and burned alive, was too sensational to not be picked up by the mainstream media. But it turns out that the event never happened. Furthermore, the Iraqi "spokesman" relied on to give all information regarding this event is as fictional as the story itself. Jamil Hussein, the man news reports called "police Capt. Jamil…
Greg Sheffield
 

NY Times on 'Civil Rights Leader' Al Sharpton

Clay Waters
 

Barney Frank Bashes Chris Wallace on Air

Greg Sheffield
 

Olbermann in L.A. Times: I'm Not Making Facts Up Like Rush Limbaugh

Tim Graham
 

GMA Lauds Carter Book Accusing Israel of Apartheid As Working For 'Pea

Mark Finkelstein
 

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Early Christmas Presents From Daily Kos

Christmas came early to the Sheppard residence this year. A Daily Kos diarist wrote a blog post on the day before Thanksgiving about some articles I penned over the summer. This precipitated a flood of glorious tidings to my inbox from strangers across the fruited plain the entire holiday weekend. We Diss You a Merry ChristmasCertainly, one of the greatest honors bestowed upon a writer is to be…
Noel Sheppard